Winter Reading Challenge

Trish of A Joyful Heart has thrown down the gauntlet to all fellow bibliophiles: How many books can you read between now and the beginning of Spring, March 20?

And, there's a $25 Amazon gift certificate to be awarded at random to a registered challenger! Head on over to her site to read the rules and register.

This is timely for me, because one of my Christmas presents from my beloved was a $200 Barnes and Noble gift card. Talk about speakin' my love language! After about a week and a half of pulling out the card just to caress it, kiss it and rub it against my cheek Chuck finally said, "Spend the thing already!"

So, I did. Mostly. I left just under $50 on the card to save for later.

Not all on my list are from my two-day B&N bender, and many of these I've started, but here are the books in, on and around my nightstand:

Timeless Writings of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections and God in the Dock
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from it's Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey
How Now Shall We Live? Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey
The One Year Life Verse Devotional, anthology compiled by Jay K. Payleitner (I got a signed copy from one of the contributors, Jinny Henson)

Non-Fiction: History

The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Histories, Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides